Lightning Strikes, Season 2, Episode 4 (Rising Storm) by Lexi Blake

Author:Lexi Blake [Blake, Lexi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Lexi Blake, drama, Rising Storm, Texas, Romance, small town
Publisher: Evil Eye Concepts, Incorporated
Published: 2016-09-26T21:00:00+00:00

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Brittany watched in horror as Hector Alvarez pulled his wife toward his car. He wasn’t even pretending to help her. He simply dragged her along. Ian stopped Marcus from following, putting a hand on his chest. She could hear Joanne Alvarez telling Marcus that everything was fine.

Brittany started toward them, determined to stop what was happening before her eyes.

Her grandmother put a hand on her arm. “What are you doing?”

Mallory had just walked away, Luis’s hand in hers. It had been obvious Marcus’s little sister was emotionally distraught and there was no doubt about the cause. It looked like Hector Alvarez was back and he was making himself known.

She needed to go and be with Marcus. Maybe she would calm him down or maybe she would help him beat the crap out of his father.

“Well, that was inevitable.” Her father, Senator Sebastian Rush, joined them. He’d been parking the car and Brit was happy he’d missed talking to Mallory and Luis. It would have only made Mallory feel worse. “What a nasty scene. How many people do you think saw it?”

Her grandmother shook her head, keeping a hand on Brittany. “At least ten people, but you know they’re all on their phones right now so everyone will know about it soon.”

“Grams, let me go. I need to talk to Marcus.” Brittany felt sick as she watched Joanne climb into the back seat of Hector’s car while Dakota claimed the front. She had a grin on her face like the cat who’d gotten all the cream.

Her father stepped up. “Absolutely not. You’re not getting involved in that mess, and now I have to talk to Tate because it happened right in front of his campaign office.”

Marcus stood and watched the car with his mother driving away. The look on his face nearly broke her heart.

Marylee turned to her. “I know how you feel about that boy, but I need you to think about your family right now.” She looked around as though trying to see if anyone was watching them. She seemed satisfied that all eyes were on Marcus because she spoke again. “Your father barely won reelection. I know you’re angry with him but his job is important to this family. Think about your mother.”

“It wasn’t barely,” her father complained. “It was two whole points. That’s fairly respectable, but yes, you should think of your mother, Brittany.”

She thought about her mother all the time. She couldn’t understand why her mother hadn’t walked out. It was something she and Marcus had in common. They didn’t understand their parents’ marriages. But they both loved their moms very much.

“It looks like the boy has some support,” her father said. “If you walk up to him right now our name is going to get embedded into that story and we’ve already had enough gossip around this family to last forever.”

She stared at her father, the hypocrite. All that gossip had been about him and his bad behavior. “Are you serious?”

He shrugged. “Just because it was about me doesn’t make it any less true.

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